Hi all,
Ed Maste wrote:
> On 30 September 2014 16:35, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote:
> > We need to communicate better the state of kfreebsd and advancements
> > since wheezy; we haven't done a 'bits' email in a long time. It is
> > probably in much better state than most people realise.
>
> I'd love see a kFreeBSD submission in the FreeBSD quarterly status
> updates as well! Much of the same content is probably applicable.
>
> Links:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-July/045573.html
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/howto.html
I'm going to try to write something for the latter. Please let me know
soon if you have anything to say for this, or just ideas of things I
should mention, either for this or for a Debian "bits" mail.
Some ideas so far (already more than I can cover in a single article,
but) :
* new since wheezy
- KMS graphics
- vt(4)
- firmware loading (for radeonkms, what else?)
- suspend/resume seems to work now
- MATE desktop environment
- most of Cinnamon's packages (what's missing and why?)
- Petr rewrote our threads implementation in GNU libc
- performance improvements due to GEOM (no figures yet)
- OpenZFS features becoming available (LZ4 etc.)
- OpenJDK 7 Java runtime
- IPSEC in our standard kernel image (anyone got it working yet?)
- Xen PVHVM drivers now in our standard kernel image
- virtio drivers for KVM (see next point)
* public clouds
- worked fine on Bytemark's BigV, was able to rent a powerful
development environment short-term, and do test-rebuilds more
easily than ever before
- Amazon AWS? (haven't tried it, but know we can run as Xen domU)
* (delicately!) mention init system, still being a hot topic
- no udev or systemd here; I guess that makes us a "traditional"
Debian flavour, UNIX-like and POSIX-focused
- we did lose GNOME (I think mainly due to logind, but also libgbm)
- otherwise, we seem to have all we need; Robert fixed up consolekit
- we chose to keep sysvinit as default, but are in a position to
easily use alternate init systems; OpenRC looks promising for the
future (perhaps usable already?); I guess file-rc still works
* noteworthy bugs found during the course of development
- EN-14:06 / CVE-2014-3880 (was noticed on debian buildds)
- ...
* other
- building more than 90% of the archive
- only a couple of RC bugs to worry about
- jails still working? though still require manual setup for now
- probably should make images for public clouds, qemu, virtualbox etc.
- personally, I'm now comfortable using GNU/kFreeBSD as an everyday
desktop OS, not just on servers
- could mention some places I've been running it; one of my wheezy
kfreebsd-amd64 mail servers has reached 475 days' uptime (on real
hardware, not a VM)
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
ste...@pyro.eu.org
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